Tashkent is the capital of Republic of Uzbekistan Исполнитель

Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital of an independent Republic of Uzbekistan It is a very old city. It was founded more than 2000 years ago. The city is located at the foothills of Tyan-shan mountain range lies in the Chirchic river valley. The population of the city has already grown up to more than 2000000 people.

There are several monuments and historical buildings of Muslims such as Kokaldosh madrasah and Barak-khan mosque which were built in the 16^th century.

Tashkent has now become the most modern city of Uzbekistan which has new avenues, squares, high buildings and fountains. The city is flourishing as never before. The transport facilities are good enough: there are buses, trolley-buses, trams, taxis, underground, railways with several beautiful metro stations decorated with traditional Uzbek culture.

Tashkent is the educational and scientific center of Uzbekistan where there are a lot of universities, institutes, schools, special secondary schools. The city has the republics academy of science which unites dozens of research institutes. As cultural center there are many libraries, theatres, film studies, TV centers and cinema houses. In the field of economy its industrial establishments which produce cotton fabric, textile machinery, electrical equipment, cotton harvesters and others are well-known not only in CIS but in the world also. Tashkent is often called a city of peace and friendship. For a very short period of time Tashkent became well known in the world as the capital of the new sovereign, independent state. Numbers of summit talks are held in Tashkent. A lot of embassies and representations of many international organizations, companies and firms are opened in our city. It has become a fine tradition to hold in Tashkent film festivals of Asian, African and Latin American countries.

Answer the questions.

1. What is the capital of Uzbekistan?
2. When was Tashkent founded?
3. What is the population of the city?
4. What monument’s and historical buildings were built in the 16th century?
5. What can you say about modern cities of Uzbekistan?
6. What can you say about educational, scientific cultural centers of Uzbekistan?

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